How to Remove Milia from Your Face

What are Milia? According to Dermadoctor.com, milia are “deep seeded” white bumps that occur due to clogged pores. Basically, milia are small, hard whitehead-type cysts that grow under the skin. Dermadoctor.com indicates that milia can also occur for other reasons, with heredity being one of these reasons. Regardless of the reason milia occur, they are ugly, so you want to remove these. So, how do you go about removing these without visiting a doctor?

How to Remove Milia. If you have a milia on your eyelid (or in the eye area), chances are that the milia is just under the skin’s surface because skin is so thin in the eye area. This makes the milia easier to remove, and many people use tweezers to remove the milia. This, for the eye area, is likely the safest and easy way to remove eye milia. So, how do you do this?

Just place the tweezers over the milia and use your tweezers to pull the skin up and away from your eye (to avoid catching your eye with the tweezers). As you pull the skin up, tweeze hard to flatten the hard milia cyst. You can then use the tweezers to pull open a small portion of the skin and squeeze out the milia.

You might have to remove the milia differently if the milia is located elsewhere on your face because it might be deeper into the skin that it would be on the eye. If this is the case, then use some alcohol to sterilize the tip of a safety pin (because a safety pin is sturdy and easy to control) and insert the tip into your skin’s surface, just above the milia to break the skin and then remove the pin.

Some blood might escape, but the milia will too if you push in and upward to force it from your skin. Make sure that you get it all, too. If you don’t, you will have to finish removing it later because the small portion you leave in might grow bigger. Be sure to use a dab of alcohol to sterilize the broken skin area. This might sting. Now, how can you prevent milia?

Milia Prevention. Sometimes you cannot prevent milia, but you can certainly control the presence of milia. To do this, you must first get rid of all the milia that you already have present in your face. This means that you might have some that you cannot yet see. Micro-dermabrasions help with this, but not everyone can afford these.

The best thing to do is to use an exfoliating skin cleanser (such the Herbal Cleanser from agemanagement.com). This cleanser costs anywhere from $20 to $30 per bottle (depending on the strength you purchase), but lasts a long time. Plus, it is worth the money you spend because it quickly sloughs away old skin and reveals any new milia.

Of course, you need to remove new milia as these surface, and you will likely see less and less milia as time goes on because a good exfoliating cleanser helps keep your pores from getting clogged. So, save yourself some pain and embarrassment by purchasing a good exfoliating skin cleanser to help you rid your face of milia.

Sources

Dermadoctor.com